Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

[Scott Kitterman]

David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:

>On 03/01/2013 05:55 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On Friday, March 01, 2013 05:50:35 AM Martin Pitt wrote:
>>> For those we'll need temporary staging areas which are not put into
>>> the RR yet until they get a sufficient amount of testing; these
>could
>>> be "topic PPAs" which interested people would enable and develop in,
>>> which get landed into the RR when everything is ready?
>>
>> For people or teams that are largely or entirely !canonical, this
>only works
>> if all you care about is x86 (i386/amd64).  Anything for armhf (or
>powerpc)
>> would have to land untested since the PPAs that are available for
>!canonical
>> don't build these architectures.
>
> From what I've heard, that is already fixed, at least for armhf - see
>http://dev.launchpad.net/CommunityARMBuilds

Not really.   Look at the limits associated with that.  It's a miminally useful small scale capability.

Also, since it's (AIUI) virtualized, packages built in one of these PPAs aren't suitable for copy to the primary archive. 

It's a step, but not a solution. 

Scott K